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Version: 25.2

Data repositories

Data Explorer requires programmatic access via valid credentials to browse and interact with remotely hosted private data repositories.

To automatically connect to one or more data repositories, create a new credential that includes Name and Provider. Specific data repositories require additional information to connect.

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage

Add an Access key, and Secret key. You can optionally provide an IAM role for temporary access - this must be a fully qualified AWS role ARN. S3 object storage buckets are prefixed with an AWS icon and s3:// in Data Explorer.

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Seqera Compute uses AWS S3 object storage, and are prefixed with a Seqera icon and the s3:// namespace in Data Explorer.

Azure Blob Storage

Select between different credential types: a Shared key, Entra, or Cloud.

  • Shared key: Access your Azure accounts directly using primary or secondary access keys.
  • Entra: Authenticate via an Azure Entra service principal for enhanced security and identity management.
  • Cloud: Authenticate via an Azure Entra service principal for Azure Cloud.
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Select Entra for modern, identity-based access control. Select Cloud for Entra identity-based access control with Cloud specializations. Select Shared key for full, direct account access.

Add a Batch account name, Batch account key, Blob Storage account name, and Blob Storage account key.

Azure Blob Storage are prefixed with an Azure icon and az:// in Data Explorer.

GCP object storage

Add the contents of the Service account key JSON file. GCP object storage buckets are prefixed with a GCP icon and gs:// in Data Explorer.

S3-compatible storage

This includes cloud-provider and on-premise based storage solutions with an S3-compatible API. Examples include Cloudflare R2, MinIO, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Add an Access key, Secret key, Server base URL, and optionally select path-style URL access. Refer to your S3-compatible storage provider documentation to determine if path-style URL access is applicable.

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OCI has specific object-storage endpoints that are S3-compatible, and include .compat. in the server base URL. These are in the form https://<object_storage_namespace>.compat.objectstorage.<region>.oci.customer-oci.com.

S3-compatible storage are prefixed with a S3-compatible storage icon and s3:// in Data Explorer.